sploinerppc

Short:        Split,Join&Recover PowerUP/WarpOS/020
Author:       Richard Jørgensen, Jarmo Laakkonen (PPC port)
Uploader:     Jarmo Laakkonen (jami dlc fi)
Type:         misc/unix
Architecture: m68k-amigaos; ppc-warpup; ppc-powerup

This is a port of the sploiner program by Richard Joergensen for PowerUP
amigas. I also included MS-DOS and SPARC versions from original sploiner.lha
archive and compiled a special version for 68020. Comes with full
source which should compile out of the box with latest SAS/C. WarpOS
version is compiled with VBCC.

From original readme:

Description:
============
  This tool is for splitting up large files and rejoining them later, to
  facilitate transportation of large files on floppy disks.

  It also offers error recovery, so a faulty disk no longer means lost data.


Functions:
==========
  - Split a large file into a several smaller files.

  - Join a set of smaller files to one large file. (like cat, join etc.)

  - Recreate a lost file by using the other files, and an extra file of
    error recovery information.


New in PPC version:

-You can specify the file buffer size with -b option

-Default split buffer size is now 45000 bytes and join buffer size is
50000 bytes.

-New switch -q. When used the byte counter isn't shown while splitting.

Note about the WarpOS version:

Due to compiler trouble the WarpOS version doesn't support changing the
buffer size and it is always set to 20000 bytes when splitting and
15000 bytes when joining. Also writing of shadowfiles is not supported
and you can't use repair (quite obvious as you can't write the shadow file).
Even because of this the WarpOS version is as fast as the PowerUP version
except for joining. I think this is because WarpOS has faster context
switches compared to PowerUP software.

I don't know if I've found a bug in VBCC WarpOS but it seems that fwrite()
fails when trying to write more than 20000 bytes at once. Of course it
could be that I'm doing something wrong but VBCC compiles the sources
just fine for m68k and PowerUP.

Jarmo Laakkonen
04-Oct-1998